Guilda: Elle est bien dans ma peau
There doesn’t seem to be enough epithets to describe Jean Guilda: comedian, singer, costume and make-up innovator, transvestite extraordinaire. It seems the best one, however, is the simplest: artist. Elegantly talented and altogether groundbreaking, Guilda – his stage name recalling his real last name, as well as Rita Hayworth’s portrayal of Gilda, that indomitable mame […]
Banking Nature
After years of working to undermine environmental regulations, governments and corporations are starting to think about the value of nature—and how they can profit from it. BANKING NATURE is a provocative documentary that looks at the growing movement to monetize the natural world—and to turn endangered species and threatened areas into instruments of profit. It’s […]
Born in Gaza
BORN IN GAZA provides an intimate, deep look – leaving aside political debates – of how violence transforms the lives of ten children. A deeply human vision of the war and its consequences. The film ends three months after the end of the Israeli offensive, allowing us to see what has become of these children […]
Preempting Dissent
The creative commons documentary PREEMPTING DISSENT builds upon the book of the same name written by Greg Elmer and Andy Opel. The film is a culmination of a collaborative process of soliciting, collecting and editing video, still images, and creative commons music files from people around the world. Preempting Dissent interrogates the expansion of the so-called “Miami-Model” of […]
Anti-Social Limited
Anti-Social Limited is a sequel to the Gemini Award winning documentary Broke. Intimate and multilayered, the film tells a very tragic, but also beautiful story of a man trying to find love and a place where he belongs.“You know you’ve screwed up in life when you can rate every prison in Canada on a five star basis.”First […]
The Good Neighbour
THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR takes a closer look at the environmental and social effects of living near the Canadian oil sands in Alberta, an epic journey filmed from Montreal to Fort McMurray in a truck that runs on used vegetable oil. Statoil, a major oil company primarily owned by the Norwegian government (and thus the Norwegian […]
Moug (Waves)
Using an artistic combination of documentary footage, archive images, animation scenes, animated characters representing the family members of the filmmaker, and his own voice-over, the director tells the story of himself and of his generation, born with the birth of Mubarak’s rule in the early 80s of last century, and of his forgotten home city, […]
Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians
The film presents the emblematic case of the defense of Wirikuta, sacred territory to the Huichol people, against the threat of mining exploitation. This native people to this land, launches a spiritual crusade to protect life, evidencing the internal contradictions in our materialistic world. The Ramirez family takes us into their ritual pilgrimage that takes […]
Gulabi Gang
Nishtha Jain’s fierce documentary follows the true story of activist Sampat Pal and the legendary women’s vigilante group known as the Gulabi Gang. Never without a healthy dose of humour, this is a deeply humane film that is truly inspiring for women of all ages. Rising up in resistance to femicide in Bundelkhand, Central India, […]
Have You Seen The Arana?
In a world that has grown more dynamic and uncertain, where diversity and differences make way for standardization and uniformity, the film explores the effects of a rapidly changing landscape on lives and livelihoods. Set in Wayanad, in South India, HAVE YOU SEEN THE ARANA? is a journey through a rich and bio-diverse region that […]
Granny Power
GRANNY POWER is a documentary about a very original activist movement – the Raging Grannies. Spanning 10 years, the film follows several passionate, activist grandmothers and their “gaggles” as they fight for peace, social justice and the environment. From Occupy Wall Street sites in Canada and the U.S., to demontrations against nuclear arms, the Montebello […]
Terms and Conditions May Apply
No one really reads the terms and conditions connected to every website they visit, phone call they make or app they download. Regardless of privacy settings, your data is being collected and your behaviour is being monitored—even as you read this, in fact—leaving the future of civil liberties uncertain. But how can we be living […]
Children 404
CHILDREN 404 spotlights the lives of Russian LGBTQ+ youth struggling with decisions to remain in their home country or build a new life abroad, while offering a glimpse at the country’s deeply rooted conservatism. In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin passed a bill forbidding the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relations to minors.” LGBT youth, now […]
My Brooklyn
MY BROOKLYN is a documentary about Director Kelly Anderson’s personal journey, as a Brooklyn “gentrifier,” to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and class. The story begins when Anderson moves to Brooklyn in 1988, lured by cheap rents and bohemian culture. By Michael Bloomberg’s election as mayor in 2001, a massive […]
Mars at Sunrise
Mars At Sunrise tells the story of a war waged on imagination. The film abstractly portrays the conflict between artists on either side of Israel’s militarized borders, and explores how a powerful creative mind survives, and even thrives, under pressure. When Azzadeh, a young Jewish American poet, travels to Israel to see the land and people […]
Breaking the Frame
BREAKING THE FRAME is a feature–length documentary portrait of the New York artist Carolee Schneemann by Canadian filmmaker Marielle Nitoslawska. A pioneer of performance and body art as well as avant-garde cinema, Schneemann has been breaking the frames of the art world for five decades, in a variety of mediums, challenging assumptions of feminism, gender, […]